It's been a few months now since I switched to Fedora as the main OS on my PC. I've been using the KDE version and I'm pretty happy with it, as I'd gotten slightly tired of GNOME. It's been a journey for me, and one thing that has helped a lot in recent years is the fact that I maintain (like many, many others out …

I deciced to upgrade my monitor and this time I went really big! Welcome U4323QE .

This isn't a complete step-by-step guide, but rather some supplementary notes to complement Pangolin's excellent official documentation and Jims Garage's helpful video tutorial. What Is Pangolin? Pangolin is a reverse proxy that leverages WireGuard to securely expose and share services hosted on your local home …

Several people have already blogged about the significance of random_page_cost in Postgres and how it can be a game-changer for your setup and deployments that fetch data from Postgres. Especially if you run Postgres on some cloud, such as AWS, and it happens to run on relatively modern infrastructure - please read the …

After several years of owning, I think, three different versions of the Apple Watch, I’m moving away from this product as well. My "de-Apple-ification" continues. I still own an iPhone, which I’m relatively happy with, but I’ve either ditched or retired my Apple Watch and old MacBooks (just retired them). The …

It is really funny, I had a draft post from 2023 almost a year ago. I decided to git pull the repo in a desperate attempt to force my self into writing. I have to admit I miss my blog, there was a time when I was super enthusiastic about it. My blogging days are now gone and most probably nobody reads my blog, I mean …

I just lost 1 hour searching, so I am just blogging to raise awareness and provide an extra link to the existing documentation of Micronaut, which I managed to miss, just before my eyes. So I was trying to consume an API (HTTP/JSON) with response text/javascript 1Content-Type: "text/javascript" I had totally …

I am going to be make a short break from the migration of old blog posts, this is really eating a lot of my energy, and I am not spending it writing a new post. Just a few lines for my new addition on the home networking front. It's hilarious because I was reading posts of mine from the past, something like 10 years …

I guess I am old enough to remember the days when I had to configure Quartz on some old JavaEE application, troubleshoot a failed task maybe (Quartz is a very good library by the way)? Maybe some times it was a @Schedule EJB 3 job? Years go by, and we start getting used of Spring's @Scheduled beans, Micronaut has a …

It is more than certain that the world has already enough APIs and web pages where you can check daily the progress of your country in terms of COVID-19 cases, deaths and other statistics. So this post is not about my API (even though is up there, and I am planning to keep it online, and you are more than welcome to …